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Historical Event on 5/2/1954
Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/9/1999 | BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor. |
10/22/1999 | The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'. |
7/13/1947 | An Indian Independence Bill was moved in the British Parliament on 4th July 1947 which became an 'Act' on 13th July 1947. Two Boundary Commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff were appointed to demarcate the boundaries of Punjab and Bengal. |
11/25/1975 | Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. |
12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
10/9/1970 | Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay. |
1/15/1977 | Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away. |
2/3/1928 | Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55), was born at Pune. |
2/9/1984 | Balasarasvati, eminent classical Karnatic singer and Bharat Natyam dancer of worldwide acclaim, passed away in Madras. |
9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
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